Lobster Claw Mosaic

[johnrt]

What do you do if you haven't really achieved much imaging since March? Set yourself an over ambitious project like a 4 panel 12 our mosaic of course! Throughly expecting to still be working on this at Xmas, 6 days later I'm done! Looks like I picked the right week off work!

I was worried my black point was too high, but I'm convinced the surrounding area is all signal in the image, this is one busy (an large) area of nebula!

3 hours per panel with the 3nm Astrodon, 6" RC and Atik 460ex.

I hope you like

 

 

John.

[gnomus]

Great work (as ever), John.

[Zakalwe]

I knew that this was going to be good when I saw the topic appear!

Beautiful work John

[johnrt]

Thank you chaps! Happy to get a decent project finished too, not completed anything since March I think!

[steppenwolf]

Excellent, John - really like that! Great to see you out there again.

[Rodd]

Nice John....This is a terrific target.  Kind of hard to get looking just right--which you have done.

Rodd

[johnrt]

Thank you Rodd & Steve! It's certainlt not an easy target, much more deffuse and dimmer than I thought it would be.

[toxic]

lovely claw John 

 

[johnrt]

Thank you Chris

[alan4908]

Very good - you've obviously got a lot of patience, I've only ever done one mosaic - that was last year and I'm still recovering...

Alan

[johnrt]

Haha. Thanks Alan, mosaics certainly aren't for the faint hearted!!  

[ollypenrice]

Ooooh, super. And a relief to have you back, John.

I'm sure you're right about the black point and the area being suffused by signal. My only thought would be that, with this amount of room above the clipping point, you might go for more local contrast. On the other hand this has your signature 'natural' look and needs no interference from me...

Seamless construction, too. Which software did you use for the mosaic?

Olly

[Barry-Wilson]

I think we've all missed your images John and your well-reasearched galaxy targets.

Lovely mosaic mono and in your natural style.

[johnrt]

Thank you Barry & Olly! How heart warming to be missed! I could wander off for hours before the Mrs even noticed

Perhaps you're right Olly, there could be a little room left to enhance the contrast just a touch, this nebula processing is complicated compared to my normal galaxy images, you know where you are with a good old fashioned galaxy

This was stiched wih the gardient merge mosaic tool in Pixinsight, which normally gives me terrible trouble, but for some reason worked a treat this time. I have dowlnladed APP to have a play, but I haven't had chance to run thris through using it yet.

[swag72]

What's a great image ? It has your usual natural look about it and your posts are always a joy to look at.

[johnrt]

Much appreciated Sara!